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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com,
	Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>,
	Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 1/1] virtual-bus: Implementation of Virtual Bus
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:24:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191120232320-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191121030357.GB16914@ziepe.ca>

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:03:57PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Frankly, when I look at what this virtio stuff is doing I see RDMA:
>  - Both have a secure BAR pages for mmaping to userspace (or VM)
>  - Both are prevented from interacting with the device at a register
>    level and must call to the kernel - ie creating resources is a
>    kernel call - for security.
>  - Both create command request/response rings in userspace controlled
>    memory and have HW DMA to read requests and DMA to generate responses
>  - Both allow the work on the rings to DMA outside the ring to
>    addresses controlled by userspace.
>  - Both have to support a mixture of HW that uses on-device security
>    or IOMMU based security.

The main difference is userspace/drivers need to be portable with
virtio.

-- 
MST


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-21  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-15 22:33 [net-next v2 1/1] virtual-bus: Implementation of Virtual Bus Jeff Kirsher
2019-11-15 23:25 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-19  3:58   ` Ertman, David M
2019-11-19  4:31     ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-19  4:39       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-19 17:46         ` Ertman, David M
2019-11-19 18:39           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-19 17:44       ` Ertman, David M
2019-11-19  4:08   ` Jason Wang
2019-11-19  4:36     ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-19  6:51       ` Jason Wang
2019-11-19  7:13         ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-19  7:37           ` Jason Wang
2019-11-19 15:14             ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-20  3:15               ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20  3:38                 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-20  4:07                   ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20 13:41                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-21  4:06                       ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20  8:52                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-20 12:03                     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-19 16:46             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-19 18:58               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-19 19:03                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-19 21:34                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-19 19:15                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-19 21:33                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-19 23:10                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-20  0:16                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-20  1:46                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-20  3:59                           ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20  5:34                             ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20 13:38                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-20 14:15                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-20 17:28                               ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-20 18:11                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-20 22:07                                   ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-20 22:39                                     ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-21  8:17                                       ` Jason Wang
2019-11-21  3:03                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-21  4:24                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2019-11-21 13:44                                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-23 16:50                                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-21  7:21                                       ` Jason Wang
2019-11-21 14:17                                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-22  8:45                                           ` Jason Wang
2019-11-22 18:02                                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-23  4:39                                               ` Tiwei Bie
2019-11-23 23:09                                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-24 11:00                                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-24 14:56                                                     ` Tiwei Bie
2019-11-25  0:07                                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-24 14:51                                                   ` Tiwei Bie
2019-11-24 15:07                                                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-25  0:09                                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-25 12:59                                                       ` Jason Wang
2019-11-23 16:48                                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-21  5:22                                     ` Jason Wang
2019-11-21  6:59                                   ` Jason Wang
2019-11-21  3:52                               ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20  7:38                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-20 13:03                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-20 13:43                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-20 14:30                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-20 14:57                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-20 16:45                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-20 22:05                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-11-21  1:38                                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-21  4:53                                       ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20  3:29                   ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20  3:24               ` Jason Wang
2019-11-20 13:33                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-21  3:57                   ` Jason Wang
2019-11-21 15:10     ` Martin Habets
2019-11-22  9:13       ` Jason Wang
2019-11-22 16:19         ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-26 12:26           ` Martin Habets
2019-11-27 10:58             ` Jason Wang
2019-11-27 11:03               ` Jason Wang
2019-11-15 23:42 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-18  7:48 ` Greg KH
2019-11-18 22:57   ` Ertman, David M
2019-11-19  8:04   ` Jason Wang
2019-11-19 17:50     ` Ertman, David M
2019-11-18  7:49 ` Greg KH
2019-11-18 22:55   ` Ertman, David M

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